There are efforts to get rid of distro default config files in /etc in favor of
built in defaults or files in eg /usr/etc. Means rpms no longer install stuff
into /etc. The transition there however requires some handling of existing
files in /etc. Unmodified ones should get removed while modified ones need to
stay in place. Right now on openSUSE side we have an advice in the wiki to add
[scriptlets](https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_UsrEtc#Moving_of_configuration_files)
in %pre and %posttrans. Not exactly convenient nor smart.
Also, that model assumes that such packages have no mention of the config files
in /etc at all anymore. IMHO it would still be desirable own the ones in /etc
though. So if one runs `rpm -qc vim` one would see `/etc/vimrc` even if that
file isn't shipped.
So assuming the old package had
%config(noreplace) /etc/vimrc
The new one should have something like
%config(missingok) /etc/vimrc
or
%ghost %config /etc/vimrc
Currently however the first version would lead to actually installing a
(potentially zero sized) file in /etc, and the %ghost form would not remove an
unmodified config on update.
Any thoughts on this?
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